I came across this far down in this daily column and feel it needs to be shouted! This is serious!
A draft of the administration’s Nuclear Posture Review lays out the possibility of using nuclear weapons to respond to cyberattacks. The New York Times’s David E. Sanger and William J. Broad report: “For decades, American presidents have threatened ‘first use’ of nuclear weapons against enemies in only very narrow and limited circumstances, such as in response to the use of biological weapons against the United States. But the new document is the first to expand that to include attempts to destroy wide-reaching infrastructure, like a country’s power grid or communications, that would be most vulnerable to cyberweapons.”